“You can’t get more historic than this.” — Tourist Marc Tanner of Boca Raton, Fla., atop the reopened Washington Monument after nearly three years of post-earthquake repairs (The Associated Press, Monday)

“It’s a very good day in Plano.” — PlanoMayor Harry LaRosiliere, after the City Council approved $6.75 million in incentives for construction of Toyota’s U.S. headquarters in Plano’s Legacy West (The Dallas Morning News, Tuesday)

“The day of plopping a single midrise office building along the freeway, or a grocery-anchored shopping center at a major intersection, and expecting anyone to get very excited, is over.” — Dallas architect Larry Good, on the local trend of billion-dollar corporate urban villages (The Dallas Morning News, Friday)

“We’re hoping for a big storm.” — Mike Rickman, deputy director of the North Texas Municipal Water District, on water needed for lakes that supply high-growth suburbs (The Dallas Morning News, Friday)

“First, they said she faked her concussion, and now they say she’s auditioning for a part in ‘The Walking Dead,’ ” — Former President Bill Clinton, playing down concerns about his wife’s rebound after a blot clot (PBS, Wednesday)

“When you do something a lot, you get good at it. I think Texas probably does it as well as Iran.” — Veteran death-row lawyer David R. Dow of Houston, on Texas’ proficiency in carrying out executions (The New York Times, Tuesday)

“I’m not sure they would ever invite me to play drums with Led Zeppelin, but you know, I’m not going to say ‘no,’ just in case the invitation comes.” — Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, on not ruling out a long-shot run for speaker of the House (The Hill, Tuesday)

“Am I entitled to one mistake? It’s a terrible mistake, and I’ll never do it again.” — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, apologizing for comments about black people (CNN, Monday)

“We buried three of our high school friends today.” — Turkish mine official Onur Nergiz, in the aftermath of a coal-mining disaster that claimed at least 274 lives (The Associated Press, Wednesday)

“The fact of these deaths is an outrage to the president. He’s made that clear. You heard what Gen. Shinseki had to say today. He’s mad as hell about this. Nobody’s more mad than the president.” — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, on reports of deaths of veterans waiting for care at VA facilities (CNN, Thursday)

“We have the numbers we have because 48,000 people want change.” — Louisa Meyer, board member of Save Our Public Schools, on signatures gathered on petitions to reform the Dallas school district (Dallas Morning News editorial board meeting, Tuesday)

“She acted like a 15-, 16-year-old. She was an attentive student, respectful, did her homework.” — Stuart Newlin, principal of New Life Christian School in Longview, on a 34-year-old woman who passed herself off as 15 to enroll in classes (The Associated Press, Thursday)

“Your drone is creepy and violating. You need to take it out of the air, or I will.” — From a woman’s account of confronting a beachgoer whose camera-equipped drone was hovering over sunbathing females (Reddit, Tuesday)